Inertial microfluidics has become a popular topic in microfluidics research for its good
performance in particle manipulation and its advantages of simple structure, high …

Inertial particle microfluidics (IPMF) is an emerging technology for the manipulation and
separation of microparticles and biological cells. Since the flow physics of IPMF is complex …

Crystal-like structures find application in several fields ranging from biomedical engineering
to material science. For instance, droplet crystals are critical for high throughput assays and …

The encapsulation and co-encapsulation of particles in microfluidic flows is essential in
applications related to single-cell analysis and material synthesis. However, the whole …

Precise determination of microfluidic behaviors is theoretically significant and has shown
remarkable application prospects. This work numerically studies the self-ordering and …

The formation of pairs and trains of particles in inertial microfluidics is an important
consideration for device design and applications, such as particle focusing and separation …

We investigate the formation and stability of a pair of identical soft capsules in channel flow
under mild inertia. We employ a combination of the lattice Boltzmann, finite element and …

Strings of equally spaced particles, also called particle trains, have been employed in
several applications, including flow cytometry and particle or cell encapsulation. Recently …

The immersed boundary-lattice Boltzmann method is used to study the inertial migration of
particles in Poiseuille flow of a power-law fluid. The effects of Reynolds number, power-law …

The inertial focusing of elliptical particles and the formation of self-organizing trains in a
channel flow are studied by using the lattice Boltzmann method. The effects of particle …